2008 Rhode Island Center for the Book Semi-finalists: Letters About Literature Project. Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School Writers!
 Congratulations to:

  Colin Campbell, Chicken Boy by Frances O’Roark Dowell
Zach Deutsch, The Brave by Robert Lipsyte
Mathew Sylvester, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
Kyle DiMeglio, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Leah Murdock, It’s Not Easy Being Mean by Lisi Harrison
Garrett Lincoln, Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Vincent Paolino, The Contender by Robert Lipsyte
Kyle Talbot, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck